Type 51

This underprint is for the firm James Spicer & Co. (later James Spicer and Sons).  They were wholesale Stationers and Paper Merchants.

They operated from:

    68 Upper Thames Street,
    London E. C.

1868. Unofficial underprint in black over the gum.

PP178 1/2d rose-red (SG 48 or G3)
Plate 11

Multiples of this underprint are very rare and so far I have located just one example from plate 11.

PP179 1d lake-red (SG 43 or G1)
Plates 114, 117, 122, 123, 125, 129, 130, 131, 134, 135, 136, 138, 139, 140, 144, 145, 147, 150, 151, 152, 156, 159, 164, 167, 168, 171, 173, 174, 177, 187, 191, 192, 195, 201, 205, 207 and 220